Articles Posted in the Letters & Commentary Category

By Former Monmouth County Freeholder Amy Mallet The first freeholder meeting of each year is very telling of a board’s priorities. In 2010, the Republican majority reversed the formation of a voluntary ethics board in…

By Clyde L. Mackenzie Jr. During the 1990s, two local long-standing commercial fisheries came to an end in this area when the species being harvested became scarce. They were the fisheries for lobsters and softshell…

By Patrick Murray The Monmouth University Polling Institute IT’S REFERENDUM MANIA in Trenton! The governor and Republican legislators want to put same sex marriage to a public vote. Democratic legislators want to put charter school…

By William and Elissa Cahill Holmdel Mayor Patrick Impreveduto recently announced that the Township faced a budget crisis – a $2.5 million deficit. Assuring us that the municipal budget has already been “cut-to-the-bone,”…

Struggle for LBGTQ Rights Exhibit at Brookdale To the Editor; During the week of February 13 through 17, the NJ Legislature voted on the question of same-sex marriage. The legislation passed in the State Assembly…

PROTESTORS HAVE BLAMED “capitalism” for the economic disaster. Blame instead the money managers and traders who used the people’s capital to speculate. They are not capitalists, and the perversion they engage in is not capitalism.…

To The Editor: Several members of the Middletown Swim and Tennis Club have been working hard behind the scenes to salvage the municipal pool club and protect our community asset from the township’s misguided and…